Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-08-13
Bishop TayIOr's Daughter.

SHE has HAD ROMANTIC CAREER SINCE SHE ELOPED
FROM HER MORMON HOME.
From the San Francisco Examiner
The romantic career OF Annie Taylor daughter
OF Jno. Taylor the lately deceased president OF the
Mormon Church, would I'LL volume, and it strik-
ingly illustrates the old adage that truth Is
stranger than fiction" Annie Taylor always uses
her maiden name, though she has been thrice
married, and Is now a widow apparently forty
years OF age, but still well preserved. She is dig
nied-loOking woman, and 1t is easy to see that she
has known better days and has had more luxuri-
GUS surroundings than now attend her. his
.h her ,sSsr PT9phet Seer and
present resident OF San Francisco and lives In a
small room in an obscure lodging house on Minna
She has for years been at the mercy OF fate. and
has lived from hand to mouth, as the saying is.
constantly changing her abode from Stevenson.
Annie Taylor well KNOWS what the pangs OF pow
erty are, as she has for years lived most preca.
rious existence and always overwhelmingly. 1t
Is said that II Is long road that has no turn
and IT. is very likely that In her case the turn has
come. The deceased Mormon president was very
wealthy man, and it Is not at all likely that In hts
Will ne mas forgotten his err1ng yet faVOrte daugh-
Ter Annie.
When Annie Taylor was a beautiful young wo-
man OF some twenty years OF age, the pride OF her
parents and the adored object OF young 'sSa1nt"
VINO sought her hand and heart, she fell in love
with Gentle, lawyer, at the time resident Of
Salt Lake. Her love was rectprocated, and In their
stolen interviews they pledged Themselves
lovers have ever done-to be true to death.
AS marriage In the City of Saints was an Inn
possibility, the young couple determined to elope,
and elope they did, fleeing to California. The eoDe.
ment was discovered soon after their flight, and
resoiute Oand OF Mormon boys, armed and on fleet
horses, pursued the infatuated twain, determined
70 rescue Hover Of the Church from the polluted
touch OF the hated Gentle.
But the hunt was in vain. The gallant discfnle
OF Blackstone distanced his fierce pursuers and
thus escaped being served with an illegal and per-
emptOry habeaS corpus The scandal at the time
created great sensation among the MOrmons, as
the elopement OF Mormon girl with Gentle
was rare thing IN those days, and it shocked and
grieVed the whole community.
Annie's 1ather being a leading member of the
church. the trusted friend and adviser OF the then
G.eat Al M1 3g brigham Ioung made the eope
couple found themselves safe beyond the bollnd;i-
res OF the sanity Zion they drew u breath OF
relief, for had the lawyer been captured he would
certainly have been shot to death by his inruri-
ated pursuers, while Annie would have been
brought back TO be In time the reigning mistress
OF some wealthy MOrmOnS harem
But before long the lawyer husband changed to
the legal Lothario, and the cup and the gambling
Annie Taylor found herself oil alone in The great
city OF San Francisco, with only few hundred
dollars. She took elegant apartments in a large
lodgtng-house on kearney street.
Soon aIterward Annie made the acquaintance OF
rowing Baptist preacher, who, taking advantage
OF his sacred calling, played the hyPocrite with
COnsummate tact He wOOed Annie Taylor and
finally won her. and they were married in this
city. The honeymoon had scarcely waned before
what little money his wife had, and then COM a..
menced life OF debauchery. divorce quickly
followed, and again the deceived and betrayed
wife found herself all alone in the wicked world.
This time She was compelled to give up her ele-
CANT rooms on kearney street and disappeared
mystertOusly, seeking secluson in some side street
or alley, where she thought she could never meet
any one who had known her history.
While In this seclusOn IT is known that she mar
red for The third time, and her third venture was
even more unfortunate than the two preceding
ones. Her husband proved to be O depraved opium
nend, and nature at last abhOrring his sight ex-
tended her mercieS by putting an end TO him.
thus, for the third time, the "Widow Annie Tay-
Annie has q sister BY the same mother in Salt
Lake, whom she idOIizes and TO this sister, and to
| her only, has she ever communicated her wherea-
bouts.
1t Is strange, too. that the sister In Salt Lake
eiOped SEINE years ago with Gentle, but she was
captured, brought back, and afterward married
prominent Mormon.